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Lesson 5.3: View the test results

At any time, you can open a test plan and view the test results. In this lesson, you log in as the test manager and view the test log that was generated during the New Customer Order Test Case test run.
When you execute a test, you can view the results immediately, or you can later access the results through a test execution record's history.
  1. Log in as the test manager (Userid: mary, Password: mary).
  2. Open the test plan by pointing to the Planning icon (Planning), and clicking View Test Plans.
  3. In the View Builder window, deselect My test plans only, and click Run.
  4. From the list of test plans, click Classics Java Test Plan in the name column.
  5. Click the Test Cases section.
    Note: If you have the test plan open from the previous lesson, click Test Plan Overview to display the Table of Contents.
  6. Click New Customer Order Test Case, and then click the Test Execution Records section. Notice the last result for the test execution record that you previously executed has changed to the Blocked icon (Failed). Also, the Actual Result has changed to Failed. Click the icon in the Last Result column to open the results history:
    Tip: To expand the Test Case section, close the Related Sites panel by clicking the arrow between the Test Case section and the Related Sites Panels.

    Test execution record with status change

    You can then view the results of any executed test by clicking the icon in the Execution Result column:

    Test log list

    The Execution Result displays an overview of the test. You can link to the test case or test script that was used during execution. You can also link to any defects added, or you can add other new or existing defects.

    Execution result

    The Result Details outline the steps that were executed, along with its result, so you can see at what step a test failed or a defect was reported. The defect that you created is attached to step 10. You can point to the Defect icon (Defect), and click the Defect ID to open it.

    Results Details

By analyzing your test runs, you can identify trends and spot where bottlenecks exist in your project.
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